| Show SEVERAL ARRESTS MADE IE I IN ILLINOIS CENTRAL CAR REPAIR fRAUD CASES CHICAGO Aug 20 Three O.-Three Three former officials officials officials of of- of ot the Illinois Central Railroad company were ere arrested Friday Frida In lon with the alleged huge frauds by means of ot which the railroad it was defrauded out of ot The men arrested were Frank B B. Harriman former general manag manager r of or the road Charles former of L. L manager lines ines north of the Ohio John K IL Taylor Talor formerly general storekeeper storekeeper storekeeper store store- keeper of ot the road The warrants were sworn rn to b by President President dent lent Harahan of ot tho the railroad concerned They charge the three thre men with conspiracy con con- piracy to cheat and defraud the railroad by false pretenses and with operating a confidence game Harriman and Ewing were wera taken to the Harrison street police station Their bonds of ot each were ere signed b by professional bondsmen The allegations in the called so-called graft case are among the most sensational In which high officials of a great corporation corporation corpora- corpora tion Ion ever havo been n named med The Investigation began over oer a 0 year ear ago it reached It-reached a crisis last spring when President Harahan began actions to recover sums said said aid to aggregate to more moro tn n alleged to have been secured by car car carre repair re repair re- re pair companies in connivance ance with high officials of th the road Harriman n Ewing Taylor and a large number of others of lesser esser magnitude resigned ed their positions Much Has Been Repaid Much of the money is said sard to have ve b been en repaid privately The name nama of ot Ira G. G Rawn vice president of ot the road who resigned to become president of the Manon Monon Mo- Mo non and who was found dead recently at athis athis' athis atilo his ilo his his' home with a bullet wound In his breast was as brou brought ht into the scandal Murray Nelson Jr attorney for the tho Illinois Central stated today that Rawn's death headed off ort warrants which would have ha lave been Issued for him Private detectives working u under det tho the direction of ot President Harahan are said to have unearthed frauds other than those connected with padded car repair bills These are said to Involve e the diverging of or more from new construction tion The investigators declare they have secured several confessions which will be used In their attempt to fasten the guilt on culpable persons Today's Todal 5 developments bring the name of ot Ewing Into the case for the first time Ho was seen at his residence by report report- reporters ers era but declined to discuss the charges chanes' against him Harriman embraced the opportunity to declare his Innocence Harriman Enters Deni Denial I. I I III have never ne been approached by an attorney or det detective engaged In tn this case said Mr Harriman I am perfectly per- per fecU innocent of any and all charges made mado against me I will admit that I have ia e been awaiting some come such action as this In order to refute the charges I am glad of ot the opportunity to clear m my p name I have always been true to my friends and I want them to know as will be shown in court that I always alwa's was true to the Illinois Central Harriman's connection with Uh the Illinois Central Central covers a period of thirty one years He began as a a. civil en engineers engineer's apprentice ap ap- prentice served ened three yeas years as an assistant assistant assist assist- ant and rose roso through the grades of ot constructing engineer trainmaster trainmaster trainmaster train train- master and division superintendent to the general An official of the road intimated that other warrants would follow those Issued today He declared that the system of graft unearthed by the tho railroads makes maltes political graft look trivial Will Get Every Man We will set get et the last man In this con con- if It takes u us down to the tho lowliest section hand he ho declared The Tho mass massof massof massof of evidence we have ha secured Is so great eat that it demonstrates that political graft In Its itI conditions passes into in insignificance In- In significance beside the hoodwinking of or railroad executives e by designing under under- lings lines I predict that other roads will wake wane up and that their awakening will produce more moro than one sensation President nt Harahan awaited the minute details of J f the ln investigation estimation before ing When he considered the time ripe as he did last night he took the tho field himself He fIe called on Chief Justice Olson Ol Olson Olson Ol- Ol son of the thEl municipal c court urt and with the assistance of ot a pile of or documents and photographs laid the case before him Judge Olson referred him to Judge Bruggemeyer in the Jurisdiction of ot who whose whose e court the Illinois Central offices are lo lo- lo Judge Bruggemeyer Issued the warrants warrants warrants war war- rants but made every effort to Keep beep the tho fact tact a n secret Not until the arrests were ere made this afternoon did the secret leak It created a sensation In railroad and social circles where whore tho the defendants are well known Hearing on the tho warrants was set for next Friday |
